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A Whole Other Kind Of Graphical Programming
Java isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. With all its boilerplate and overhead, you’re almost always better off with a proper IDE that handles everything under the hood for you. However, if you learn a new...
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France Questions Russian Satellite with “Big Ears”
French Defense Minister Florence Parly took a page out of Little Red Riding Hood when she recently called out a Russian satellite for having “big ears”. While she stopped short of giving any concrete...
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Speech Recognition Without A Voice
The biggest change in Human Computer Interaction over the past few years is the rise of voice assistants. The Siris and Alexas are our HAL 9000s, and soon we’ll be using these assistants to open the...
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Let No Eyebrow Go Unsinged With A Wrist-Mounted Flamethrower
We’ll say it just once, and right up front: wrist-mounted flamethrowers are a bad idea. An itchy nose and a brief moment of forgetfulness while sporting one of these would make for a Really Bad Day....
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Flexible PCBs Make The Fins Of This Robotic Fish
We love a little outside-the-box thinking around here, and anytime we see robots that don’t use wheels and motors to do the moving, we take notice. So when a project touting robotic fish using...
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AI Finds More Space Chatter
Scientists don’t know exactly what fast radio bursts (FRBs) are. What they do know is that they come from a long way away. In fact, one that occurs regularly comes from a galaxy 3 billion light years...
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A Dozen Tubes Make An Educational Amplifier
If you asked [Hans_Daniel] what he learned by building a tube audio amplifier with a dozen tubes that he found, the answer might just be, “don’t wind your own transformers.” We were impressed, though,...
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The Tiny, Pocket-Sized Robot Meant For Hacking
The world is full of educational robots for STEAM education, but we haven’t seen one as small or as cute as the Skoobot, an entry in this year’s Hackaday Prize. It’s barely bigger than an inch cubed,...
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Adding 3D Printer Power and Light Control to OctoPrint
OctoPrint is a great way to monitor your printer, especially with the addition of a webcam. Using a tablet or mobile phone, you can keep an eye on what the printer is doing from anywhere in the house...
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Cat Robot’s Secret to Slim Legs? Banish the Motors!
The first thing to notice about [Bijuo]’s cat-sized quadruped robot designs (link is in Korean, Google translation here) is how slim and sleek the legs are. That’s because unlike most legged robots,...
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A Look At The Smallest Magnetic Deflection CRT Ever Made
A high-resolution LCD or OLED screen is a commodity component that we can buy on a little breakout board and plug into our microcontrollers without spending more than a dollar or two. We can buy them...
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DrawBot Badge Represents the CNC World in Badge Design
Badges come in all shapes and sizes, but a badge that draws on a stack of Post-It notes is definitely a new one. The design uses three of the smallest, cheapest hobby servos reasonably available and...
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Turn Yourself Into A Cyborg With Neural Nets
If smartwatches and tiny Bluetooth earbuds are any indications, the future is with wearable electronics. This brings up a problem: developing wearable electronics isn’t as simple as building a device...
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Hackaday Links: September 16, 2018
Apple released a phone, the most phone in the history of phones. It’s incredible. There are four machines that are the cornerstone of electronic music. The TR-808, the TR-909, the TB-303, and the...
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iCub is the Robot that is Equally Cute and Creepy
We shouldn’t say iCub — the humanoid robot from Italy — is creepy. After all, human-like robots are in their infancy and an early computer or automobile would hardly be indicative of where those...
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Raspberry Pi Projection Mapping Crash Course
Projection mapping might not be a term you’re familiar with, but you’ve certainly seen the effect before. It’s when images are projected onto an object, usually one that has an interesting or unusual...
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Hand-Forged Cases Make Nixie Clocks into Works of Art
Both “Nixie” and “Steampunk” are getting a bit overused. It’s hard to count the number of clock projects we’ve seen recently that combine the two, and normally we’d be loath to feature yet another...
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Open Source Paramotor Using Quadcopter Tech
Have you ever dreamed of flying, but lack the funds to buy your own airplane, the time to learn, or the whole hangar and airstrip thing? The answer might be in a class of ultralight aircraft called...
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Hacked Electric Toothbrush Defeats Locks With Ease
The movie version of lockpicking tends to emphasize the meticulous, delicate image of the craft. The hero or villain takes out a slim wallet of fine tools, applies them with skill and precision, and...
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A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor
Over on the EEVblog, someone noticed an interesting chip that’s been apparently flying under our radar for a while. This is an ARM processor capable of running Linux. It’s hand-solderable in a TQFP...
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